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Eek, Gradience Linux Theming App Has Archived its Github  OMG! Ubuntu!

Gradience Theming App Now Unmaintained, GitHub Project Archived  OMG! Ubuntu!

For those interested in laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC, it's looking like the ASUS Vivobook S15 model could be one of the first devices with decent Linux support. There are patches undergoing review for upstreaming the ASUS Vivobook S 15 DeviceTree support so that much of the basic functionality is working under Linux but various features are known to be broken...

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Powered ASUS Vivobook S15 Laptop Seeing Linux Patches  Phoronix

The Etnaviv kernel graphics driver that provides reverse-engineered open-source support for Vivante graphics (and NPU) IP has seen a fresh round of patches ready to go for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.11 cycle kicking off in mid-July...

With the first half of the year drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular content on Phoronix so far in 2024. Year to date there has been 1,530 original news articles so far and 78 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by your's truly. There has been a lot happening in 2024 from Linux kernel improvements to exciting new hardware and other open-source advances...

Merged on Saturday ahead of today's Linux 6.10-rc6 release is the latest batch of x86 platform driver changes. Notable as part of this week's fixes is improving support for the very latest (2024) LG laptop models...

Linux 6.10 Lands Improved Support For LG's Latest Laptops  Phoronix

Debian 12.6 Released With Many Security Updates & Bug Fixes  Phoronix

For those on the Debian stable train, Debian 12.6 is out this weekend as the newest point release to Debian Bookworm...

Using Flatpak on Linux [Complete Guide]  It's FOSS

5 Ways Using Linux Improved My Windows Experience  MUO - MakeUseOf

Debian Linux 12.6 delivers essential security fixes  BetaNews

Debian 12.6 “Bookworm” Released with 162 Bug Fixes and 84 Security Updates  9to5Linux

Create a Secure FTP Server with Linux and SSH  The New Stack

For the Branch History Injection variant of Spectre (Spectre BHI) there is a patch pending to add a new mitigation option for that two year old CPU security vulnerability...

Linux Prepares New Spectre BHI Mitigation Option For Cloud Environments  Phoronix

The Open-Source Firmware Foundation is out with an interesting blog post by Google firmware engineer Subrata Banik around adapting the Coreboot-based Chrome AP Firmware for 64-bit booting. The transition to 64-bit booting is happening for the system firmware powering Chromebooks and other Chrome devices and is driven in part for Intel Panther Lake generation hardware...

This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week...

Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update...